As staffing professionals, we all try to bring the best workers to our clients: qualified, motivated and maybe most importantly reliable. Which makes a recent piece of research on staffing industry facts published by SHL, an Atlanta-based talent measurement company, particularly worrisome. The SHL research indicates that a… Read More

As the job market continues its slow revival, the staffing industry is likely to benefit from the increased employment rates. A few weeks ago it was reported that the jobless rate reached a four-year low. Now it appears job recovery is… Read More

We hope your staffing management business is booming: your days busy, your time invaluable, and your struggle to balance all the important meetings and precious moments of your work day, well, a struggle. But even if you’re not busy 25 hours a day, you can certainly use some extra… Read More

Though Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg famously said "Email is dead," we are pleased to report email is alive and kicking and is, in fact, a hugely valuable tool for marketing a staffing firm. No wonder: fully 50% of businesspeople begin their day by checking their email. The other 50% can't be far behind. A well-organized email can work well for internal staff members as well as external clients Read More

If temp agencies may have seen a growth spurt in recent years (and they have), this increase in short-term staffing solutions suggests the shifting face of the economy, which has spurred an explosion of part-time and temporary employment. Estimates of the amount of contingent workers in the U.S. can vary… Read More

This is a change from the way the laws were enforced in the past, before immigration was such a hot button issue and the laws were not fully enforced.Now the law is much stricter, and individuals employing illegal immigrants… Read More

It goes without saying that every staffing agency needs to sell. Whether you handle the sales yourself or have a sales staff working for you, you’re making an investment in sales. And like other investments, you want to maximize production. Obviously, youll need great salespeople, who can be wickedly… Read More

When it comes to retaining your top talent and avoiding constant turnover, you need to plan ahead. People are no longer staying at companies for 20, 10 or even 5 years anymore. This is partly due to millennials making up a larger percentage of the workforce and their tendency to “job-hop.” Job hopping can be caused by many things: Whether it’s boredom, desire for better pay or a career chang Read More

There are over 5 million job-related searches every month on Google alone. This high density online traffic can easily be taken advantage of in staffing management. By optimizing your job postings for search engines you can generate more prominence in search engine results, expose your company to larger amounts of traffic… Read More

Managing your staff effectively is important, of course, especially if you're running a staffing business, yourself. Many companies obsess about recruiting and retaining the right people. One factor that is often overlooked is whether the right people are being fired. Worrying about new people joining your organization seems silly if there are current staff members that undermine the team as a who Read More